An Allegheny County woman is guilty of stealing her cancer-stricken neighbor's dog on Thanksgiving in 2013 and summoning a veterinarian to euthanize it in an attempted coverup, a jury determined Friday.

The jury of six men and six women found Paris guilty of theft, receiving stolen property and cruelty to animals.

Paris declined comment after the jury delivered the verdict. She will be on house arrest until her sentencing March 12.

She will be tried on charges of assault and resisting arrest in April because she is accused of fighting with officers who arrested her Feb. 18.

Boehler, who appeared in court throughout the trial, did not attend.

During the trial, prosecutors told the jury that Paris suspected Boehler neglected the husky despite assurances to the contrary from a humane officer.

Paris did things that most people probably wouldn't have done but that doesn't make her a criminal, her attorney told jurors in a closing statement Tuesday.

She took the dog to an animal shelter but later paid a fee to reclaim it when she learned the shelter planned to kill it. She fed and walked the dog and took it to a veterinarian hospital for treatment, said her defense attorney Robert Mielnicki.

"Misguided does not equal malicious," he said. "Misguided does not equal evil."

Assistant District Attorney Matt Wholey said Paris stole the dog and dropped it off at the Animal Rescue League without its tags so the staff couldn't find the owner.

"In her mind, she now owns the dog. She 'rescued' it," Wholey said. "All she did was re-steal it."

Knowing that police and humane officers were investigating, she summoned a veterinarian to her home Feb. 10 to have Thor euthanized to "destroy the evidence," Wholey said.

Three days later, when Pittsburgh police officer Christine Luffey questioned her, Wholey said Paris told Luffey, "You can't prove I did it because no one saw anything."